All All. Sign In. List activity. Jane Fonda. Actress Producer Additional Crew Klute Although she initially showed little inclination to follow her father's trade, she was prompted by Joshua Logan to appear with her father in the Omaha Community Theatre production of "The Country Girl". Her interest in acting grew after meeting Lee Strasberg in and joining the Actors Studio. Her screen debut in Tall Story directed by Logan marked the beginning of a highly successful and respected acting career highlighted by two Academy Awards for her performances in Klute and Coming Home , and five Oscar nominations for Best Actress in They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Her professional success contrasted with her personal life, which was often laden with scandal and controversy. Her political involvement continued with fellow activist and husband Tom Hayden in the late s and early s. In the s she started the aerobic exercise craze with the publication of the "Jane Fonda's Workout Book". She and Hayden divorced, and she married broadcasting mogul Ted Turner in Henry Fonda.
This remarkable, soft-spoken American began in films as a diffident juvenile. With passing years, he matured into a star character actor who exemplified not only integrity and strength, but an ideal of the common man fighting against social injustice and oppression. Fonda Printing Company in Omaha, Nebraska.
His distant ancestors were Italians who had fled their country and moved to Holland, presumably because of political or religious persecution. In the mids, they crossed the Atlantic and settled in upstate New York where they founded a community with the Fonda name. Growing up, Henry developed an early interest in journalism after having a story published in a local newspaper. Following graduation from high school in , he got a part-time job in Minneapolis with the Northwestern Bell Telephone Company which allowed him at first to pursue journalistic studies at the University of Minnesota.
By this time, he had grown to a height of six foot one and was a natural for basketball. In , having returned to Omaha, Henry reevaluated his options and came to the conclusion that journalism was not his forte, after all.
